# Performance issues on a 1GB VPS **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [28 בנובמבר,‏ 2018,‏ 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-issues-on-a-1gb-vps/103002 "2018-11-28T16:43:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\ **Post date:** [28 בנובמבר,‏ 2018,‏ 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-issues-on-a-1gb-vps/103002/2 "2018-11-28T16:54:48Z")
From the [official install guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md): > The default of **1 GB RAM works fine for small Discourse communities**. We recommend 2 GB RAM for larger communities. Emphasis is my own. A 1GB $5/mo droplet from DigitalOcean is ample for small communities. Not sure where you got 2GB as a minimum, the 1GB is fine providing you let discourse-setup create a swap file. If you don’t then you’re in for all kinds of problems during upgrades. Where is the VPS you’re using? Unless it’s not SSD or they have contention issues on their infrastructure it really should be fine for a small community. How many users and how much data are you looking at? Moved this to support as it’s not a hosting question, Discourse already runs in the configuration you’re talking about. There’s a configuration or scaling issue somewhere that’s causing the load issues, if you can elaborate on your problems we may be able to help you fix it. Start with how your install was built, where it’s hosted and some detail on the number of users/database sizes, any plugins, that kind of thing. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-issues-on-a-1gb-vps/103002)._